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Title: Celtic Scotland : a history of ancient Alban
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Skene, William Forbes, 1809-1892
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Publisher: Edinburgh : Edmonston & Douglas
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
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intruders into Celtic earldoms, and the earl ofOrkney represented the earldom of Caithness ; and there weretwenty-four barons, of whom eighteen at least representedthe Norman baronage of the kingdom ; while the Celtic ele-ment is represented only by Alexander of Argyll, Angus sonof Donald, and Alan son of Eotheric, the native rulers ofArgyll and the Isles.^^^ King Alexander, thus left childless, married Yolande,daughter of the Count de Dreux, on the 14th of October of the mainland of Scotland, so that it is impossible not to see, from the lona was included in the Suderies most cursory perusal of the Sagas, (vol. ii. j)p. 28, 29). This is an entire that they include the entire Hebrides mistake, in which Mr. Burton is mere- under the name of Sudreyer or Sud- ly repeating previous writers. It reys, to distinguish them from the was first asserted by Dr. Macpherson Orkneys,without any proof, and adopted byall subsequent writers as a fact; but ^^i j(,^^ Par J. vol. i. p. 82. EETTDALSCOTLAND
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r AXX.Mn#t«n, AIMn^A. CHAP. IX.) PASSES INTO FEUDAL SCOTLAND. 497 1285, but was killed on the IGth of March following, having a.d. 1285-6.been thrown from his horse in the dusk of the evening while Alexanderriding from Dunfermline to Kinghorn to visit his queen.-^^^ ^^® Thud.The young Maid of Norway died in Orkney, when on her Conclusion,passage from Norway to take possession of her kingdom, inthe end of September 1290, and thus terminated the lastnative dynasty of Scottish monarchs of Celtic descent in themale line, and Scotland, with her united provinces, her feudalinstitutions, and her mixed population, now became a prizeto be contested for between the English monarch, whoasserted his right as her lord paramount, and the variousNorman barons who claimed her as their inheritance throughdescent in the female line from her native monarchs. It iswith the Celtic portion of her population alone that thiswork is now mainly concerned. ^^^ A rock on the road between to the credit of Scotl

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